Quick Hits on EFCA

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by Admin

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5 Responses to “Quick Hits on EFCA”

  1. May 2nd, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    Jim says:

    The cloud of worry over the Employee Free Choice Act that has been created by lies and half-truths in the media–including this website– and by politicians is a deliberate attempt to keep working people from sharing in the nation’s bounty. Your opposition to expanding workers’ rights because it would eliminate secret-ballot votes perpetuates a lie which even The Wall Street Journal has had to come clean on.

    Your claim that it would cost 5.4 million jobs is equally laughable. George Bush cost us more than that. Perhaps EFCA supporters are also carriers of swine flu?? Get a grip.

    This law does not eliminate elections, it changes who has the power to decide how to join the union from the employer to the employee. What would be more democratic than that? The decision to join or not join along with how to join should fall in the hands of employees, not their supervisors.

    To understand why the corporate and political powers that be do not want the law to pass, you have to understand the differences between our national secret-ballot elections and the secret-ballot elections that exist when forming a union.

    Imagine if the incumbent politician had the power to force you to sit in meetings in which you were constantly being bombarded with propaganda, then brought in one-on-one to interview you about your support for the opposing candidate, the vote would be held at the incumbent’s office with the staff watching, the date of the election could be delayed through an appeal process and, in the weeks leading up to the election, the incumbent fires people who will vote against him and hires new people to vote for him.

    Most reasonable people would consider this process unfair at best and totalitarian at worst, yet this is exactly what happens when people at a work site talk about forming a union.

    And I think we need to examine the fig leaf behind which opponents to this legislation hide. I find it asonishing that Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the faceless well heeled folks who fund this website and your activites, and the titans of industry are all of the sudden concerned about the “rights” of working people. Perhaps we should suspend our disbelief and push them a little further on this. How’s about workers get the right to vote on executive compensation, health care cuts, plant closures, underfunding pensions, leveraged buyouts? Now there’s some democracy they should fall in line to support.

    But they won’t.

    This fight for them is not about democracy or workers’ rights. It’s about hoarding their disproportionate share of American wealth by keeping the current system that makes it nearly impossible for a worker to organize and claim his/her share.

  2. May 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 am

    Fake Grassroots Propaganda Doesn’t Change Truth About Employee Free Choice Act | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:

    [...] apparently its proponents have turned to underhanded tactics to convince the public. Check out this comment submitted to The Truth About EFCA.com by “Jim” yesterday (May 2, 2009). Now check out [...]

  3. May 13th, 2009 at 2:30 am

    Fake ‘Comments’ Supporting EFCA Posted All Over the Web - THE UNION LABEL says:

    [...] one of its posts discussing the dangers of the EFCA a fake commenter named “Jim” posted a pro-EFCA message. The Administrator of the anti-EFCA website then found the exact comment [...]

  4. May 17th, 2009 at 6:18 am

    Fake ‘Comments’ Supporting EFCA Posted All Over the Web &laquo Publius Forum says:

    [...] one of its posts discussing the dangers of the EFCA a fake commenter named “Jim” posted a pro-EFCA message. The Administrator of the anti-EFCA website then found the exact comment [...]

  5. May 17th, 2009 at 6:28 am

    Fake ‘Comments’ Supporting EFCA Posted All Over the Web : Stop The ACLU says:

    [...] one of its posts discussing the dangers of the EFCA a fake commenter named “Jim” posted a pro-EFCA message. The Administrator of the anti-EFCA website then found the exact comment [...]